The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1887-05-31

The Treasurer of q st. Louis
Theater i'm Sedalia.
Sundry Theories as to the Cause
of His Presence Here.

From the train from the south yes
terday morning debarked a well.
dressed young man, whose actions
indicated that he was either q victim
of delirium tremens. or was not al.
together sound in mind. He was
seen by Depot Master Carnes, who
learned that the stranger wanted to
60 to st. Louis. His talk and man.
ner were singular and Carnes, who
was busy at his other duties at the
time, turned the man over to Janitor
Smith. Before Carnes turned away,
the stranger said he wanted a drink,
must have it. Smith and he started
up towards Main street and were
joined by q Pullman conductor. At
the corner by Quirk's saloon,
the two men left Smith, after
being pointed out the direction of the
Merchants hotel. The subsequent
movements of the stranger are invol.
we'd ia doubt, and there are several
accounts about him.
1t is believed, however, that the
man, who was afterwards recognized
as George Nj. Heuer, treasurer of the
Olympic theater, st. Louis, returned
to the depot, and boarded the
train, from which he jumped
off somewhere In East Sed-
ala, and then commenced wan
dering around in a dazed sort of a
way. He was not limping when
Carnes saw him at the depot, but he
was quite lame in his right leg, when
subsequently found and placed into
custody at the calaboose. 1t is sup.
posed that in jumping from the train,
he fell and injured himself.
About noon a couple of negroes
found a man wandering around the
locality near the Sedalia university,
and brought him down in town, where
they turned him over to officer Shobe,
on Ohio street. While passing the
w. U. telegraph Office, Shobe's new
found charge stopped and went in
and tried to send off a telegram to
John w. Koader, a halter of North
Fourth street, st. Louis, the substance
of which was that the sender wanted
Loader to send around a boy with a
d)llar.
Shobe and the others saw that the
stranger was demented or delirious,
and he was escorted to the calaboose
and placed in a cell. DIR. Small was
called in and gave it as his opinion
that the man was out of his head.
Conrad Schooner, a commercial
traveller for Charles Weller, of st.
Louis, who is in Sedalia, saw the man
and Immediately recognized in him
George Heuer, the well-known treas
urer of the Olympic Theater,
of the first named city. The chief
of police sent dispatch to
Pat Short, of the Olympic, and re.
ceived a reply about supper time,
telling the chief to send Heuer to st.
Louis, if he was in condition to
and all expenses would be
paid.
Heuer was given his supper about
8 o'clock, but ate sparingly. The
speculations about his condition and
bis presence in Sedalia in such plight
are manifold, and there is much
mystery attaching to the matter.
Some think he has been drugged for
some purpose, and is just recovering
from the effects. Others believe he
mas been on a terrible spree of
come sort, and others, still
think. that there will be startling
developments, before the mystery is
cleared. His actions in the cell, and
MS conversation. indicated a man
with full-grown case of delirium
.remens on his hands, with the vio-
ent features in allegiance.
Officer Lou Kahrs, at midnight,
,ook Heuer to St. Louis in answer
% the telegram received from Man
lger Pat Short, previously mentioned
n this article. The treasurer was
Ihaky, but went on the chair car
locilely, and it was thought by those
Ehoknew of the circumstances, that
auerwould go through all right until
he was with his st. Louis friends.
Heuer At Home.